Excerpt from The Ancient History, Vol. 1 of 6: Of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Grecians and Macedonians
Sect. I. - The four victorious princes divide the empire of Alexander the Great into as many kingdoms. Seleucus builds several cities. Athens shuts her gates against Demetrius. He reconciles himself with Seleucus, and afterwards Ptolemy. The death of Cassander. The first exploits of Pyrrhus. Athens taken by Demetrius. He loses almost at the same time a all he possessed.
After the battle of Ipsus, the four confederate princes divided the dominions of Antigonus among themselves, and added them to those which they already possessed. The empire of Alexander was thus divided into four kingdoms. Ptolemy had Egypt, Libya, Arabia, C?le-Syria, and Palestine: Cassander had Macedonia and Greece: Lysimachus, Thrace, Bithynia, and some other provinces beyond the Hellespont, and the Bosphorus; and Seleucus all the rest of Asia, to the other side of the Euphrates, and as far as the river Indus. The dominions of this last prince are usually called the kingdom of Syria, because Seleucus, who afterwards built Antioch in that province, made it the chief seat of his residence, in which his successors, who from his name were called Seleucid?, followed his example. This kingdom, however, not only included Syria, but those vast and fertile provinces of Upper Asia which constituted the Persian empire. The reign of twenty years, which I have assigned to Seleucus Nicator, commences at this period, because he was not acknowledged as king until after the battle of Ipsus; and if we add to these the twenty years, during which he had already exercised the regal authority without the title, they will make out the reign of thirty-one years assigned him by Usher.
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